Green means 4 kid&#39;s attire

ABSTRACT

The following information relates to new methods of recycling clothing. Although the concept of recycling garments is not new, the new methods and the results of those methods are both new and unexpected. Rarely is the recycling of garments as practical and as easy as the methods to be presented. Additionally, these methods of recycling can enable apparel manufacturers, sewing boutiques, and even home sewers, to save money and time. Benefits include sewing as little as possible while having the effect that much sewing has taken place. Another gain includes the prospect of recycling garments that failed quality control inspections due to slight imperfections. By utilizing the new methods, a marketable children&#39;s apparel line can emerge, from what would normally be a loss. Consider the benefits of a new children&#39;s apparel line almost completely sewn before the new recycling methods begin.

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Applicant, Cristi Cannon Turney, citizen of the United States, requests current application be a continuation in part of application Ser. No. 11/521,646 filed Sep. 15, 2006, for Child's Clothing Ensemble by present applicant, Cristi Cannon Turney which claims the benefit of Provisional patent application No. 60/717,320 filed Sep. 15, 2005 for Recycled Child's Outfit by the present applicant, Cristi Cannon Turney; patent application Ser. No. 11/487,035 filed Jul. 14, 2006 for Adjustable Multi-sized Garment Closure by present applicant, Cristi Cannon Turney, Provisional patent application No. 60/699,358 filed for Multi-size Adjustable Button Waistband by current applicant, Cristi Cannon Turney. Applicant, Cristi Cannon Turney, repeats a substantial portion of said application Ser. No. 11/521,646 filed Sep. 14, 2006, No. 60/717,320 filed Sep. 15, 2005, application Ser. No. 11/487,035 Filed Jul. 14, 2006, No. 60/699,358 filed Jul. 14, 2005 and adds and claims additional disclosure not present in the prior applications.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present discovery generally relates to methods of recycling garments and or garment parts, for the production of marketable smaller garments and garment related wear. Although home sewers would greatly benefit from the recycling methods presented, petitioner directs these streamlined methods of recycling toward the garment manufacturing sector. Said methods of recycling are ideal for creating capital from what would otherwise be corporation loss.

2. Description of Related Art

Present petitioner owns U.S. Pat. No. D465,316 S which illustrates one preferred embodiment of the currently presented methods of garment recycling. After entering the USPTO Web site, petitioner was able to view the References Cited in said design patent number. U.S. Pat. No. D465,316 S. Only three of the cited references were related to children's clothing. None of the citings were similar to the varied embodiments created from employing said methods of recycling garments presented in this current patent application. In essence, nearly all of the embodiments of said methods of recycling look nearly like ordinary children's clothing. End products of said methods of recycling garments include but are not limited to: under clothing, outer wear, day wear, sleep wear, shirts, pants, shorts, pinafores, dresses, hats and accessories.

RE8,093 E, by Woodward was created for men's overalls.

U.S. Pat. No. 1,204,719 A, by Van Husen was in connection with ladies wear.

U.S. Pat. No. 1,367,182 A, by Gardi has an adjustable waist for ladies active wear.

U.S. Pat. No. 1,405,405 A by Gendel was well presented and pleasant to the eyes. It however, only pertained to children's outer wear.

U.S. Pat. No. 1,476,831 A, by Pease was very nice. Complexity of Pease's invention creates a doubt of convenience.

U.S. Pat. No. 2,252,884 A. Mr. Fellroth was a very clever man also. Petitioner especially liked his drop seat pants. In order for petitioners button underwear to be fully functional, petitioner had been researching for a pattern or template that would accommodate drop seat pants. Mr. Fellroths invention helped petitioner see that an actual pattern was not needed. A simple slit at the sides with bias facing would create the drop down effect. Thank you Mr. Fellroth

After searching for similar methods of garment recycling in old sewing manuals, petitioner found pertinent information on pages 240-248 of The New Encyclopedia of Modern Sewing, copyright 1948 by WM. H. Wise and CO., Inc. The boys blouse on page 243 shows how petitioner currently places a front, back, side, or shoulder pattern piece in order to utilize the placket on nearly any recyclable garment. With the exception of the ladies jacket pages 245-248, particularly LAYOUT No. 1, petitioner noticed that pattern placement illustrations on pages 241-243 do not include the practice of utilizing existing plackets. In addition, current petitioner uses sleeves for pants, bloomers, shorts, diaper covers, and the like. Furthermore, petitioner is persuaded that most layman would not perceive what they were viewing. Current petitioner has a trained eye for how, why, and in what order a pattern should be placed on a garment for the purpose of recycling said garment. Petitioner found this information Sep. 6, 2006. As an aside, perhaps the only reason petitioner spotted the boys blouse pattern layout on page 243, is because said petitioner noticed the concept on page 247 under the heading: HOW TO MAKE A MANS SUIT INTO A WOMANS SUIT. Petitioner has included said pages from said book with the current utility patent application. Petitioner reread pages of said book, pages 245-248 Dec. 13, 2007. Page 247 illustrates a ladies suit made from a mans suit. The lapel closes from the left indicating LAYOUT No. 1 does disclose a portion of one of petitioners methods of recycling garments. The only reason petitioner gained a fill understanding of said disclosure is because of the lap of the suit illustrated on page 247.

Clearly, petitioners methods of recycling garments do considerably more than the previous inventions or methods cited. Petitioner concludes that current, consistently successful, methods of recycling garments whether at the manufacturing level or that of the home sewer, has not been established.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The following information relates to green methods of recycling garments. Nearly any garment is good for recycling into smaller clothing and or accessories. Because applicants recycling methods are based on steps that reduce waste, time and energy on the manufacturing level simultaneously producing an attractive marketable product, the title: Green Means 4 Kid's Attire was chosen.

Over decades, there has been a need in the garment fashion industry for an improved method of recycling garments and the like. By adopting petitioners green method of recycling, prospective companies will reduce waste on the manufacturing level and increase sales on the retail level. Overhead will decrease while satisfying repeat customers with new products created from said methods of recycling. New products will lead to an increase in new customers expanding the customer base as a whole. Said methods of recycling garments establishes a win/win solution to what would otherwise be company losses. Said methods of recycling garments are practical, simple, time saving, economic, and best of all, attractive.

Petitioner uses one rule pertaining to recycling garments. Said rule: capitalize on the completed work available. Many garments contain whole individual parts having completed work. For instance: plackets, sleeves, collars, pockets, hems, and even seams as found on nearly any garment, are considered completed work that has been applied or mounted to the body of said garment by means of simple seam or the like. By demounting, rearranging, and re-colligating said whole individual garment parts, often using the body of said garment as the body of the new product, a new product line can be created. Assimilating or adopting said rule, capitalizing on the completed work available, much of said new product line is sewn before said recycling methods begin.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING(S)

FIG. 1 is a frontal view of nearly any ladies shirt.

FIG. 2 is a frontal view of nearly any mans shirt.

FIG. 3 is a back view of nearly any garment.

FIG. 4 is a front view of nearly any garment.

FIG. 5 Are frontal views of demounted sleeves and marketable products.

FIG. 6 are frontal views of various embodiments of petitioners methods.

FIG. 7 are views depicting the utilization of collars and end products.

FIG. 8 are further views of FIG. 7.

FIG. 9 further views of embodiments.

FIG. 10 is a frontal view of a flow chart entitled: WHOLE GARMENTS OR GARMENT PARTS AT ANY STAGE OF ASSEMBLY

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Begin with nearly any garment, group of garments, or garment parts as found, for instance, in a garment manufacturing facility or in the closet of a home sewer. Pattern pieces, templates, or the like are to be placed on said garments at areas of interest such as: the body, plackets, yokes, embellishments, collars, sleeves, hems and even seams. Although many means are available for performing said methods of recycling, petitioner prefers making use of scissors, commercial patterns or templates, and sewing machines for said recycling methods. In addition, petitioner prefers using high end garments made of pure cotton, linen, wool, and silk because the construction and materials used for said garments are of better quality and on grain. By choosing said high end garments, the likely hood of having superior end products is probable.

Smaller garments, and the lice, are created from larger garments. Hence, the gender and size of said new products is determined by the gender and size of said larger garments. For instance, a child's size 5 garment can be converted into tiny infant wear while a ladies extra-large shirt can be converted into a size 3-4 T pinafore with matching bloomers.

At every stage of said recycling methods, left over garment parts are saved, or put to the side, for future use. By recycling more than one garment at a time, textures, colors, and accents can be interchanged creating wonderful aesthetic effects. Unused portions of garments of complementary colors are often used for the creation of soft bias tape to be used to enhance the performance of said new products.

From the beginning it is important that one understands that gender effects the outcome of petitioners invention. Due to the lap of the placket and the collar band, a mirror type effect occurs. Petitioner means: The act of cutting out any garment, or garment part that is gender specific produces gender specific clothing. FIGS. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 show this rule is true of most clothing having a placket with a plurality of button Or snap detachable fasteners.

FIG. 1 is frontal view of nearly any ladies shirt illustrating that garment plackets and collar hands are gender sensitive.

FIG. 2 is a frontal view of nearly any mans shirt. Thus proving by the lap of the collar band and placket, gender in makes a difference.

FIG. 3 includes a back view of a child's short sleeve shirt and shorts set. The shirt and shorts were made because of careful pattern placement on properly prepared garments. Said view depicts the steps needed to utilize existing body, embellishments, and back yoke. Begin with a garment back 3 a. Turn back lengthwise wrong sides together 3 b. Pattern placement is very important. Position pattern piece so that back body, back yoke and any embellishments are captured in pattern placement. 3 c shows the steps from left to right of capturing said back yoke and embellishments. Lastly, the little child's outfit is the results of said pattern placement.

FIG. 4 is frontal views of ladies clothing. 4 a is a typical ladies shirt. 4 b shows the results of placing the shirt right sides together and detachably fastening the placket. Petitioners prefers this method of explaining how to prepare the shirt front for pattern placement. 4 c is a frontal view of an embellished ladies shirt front. 4 d shows said shirt is fully prepared for carefully placed pattern piece. Said pattern piece is to be placed on top of prepared shirt front as illustrated in 4 d. Said pattern is to be placed having the button holes directly over the button area of prepared garment. ANY pattern that utilizes a placket having a plurality of detachable fasteners can be used on any garment placket according to this method. That is why the use of skirts, dresses, and coats are included as garments that are good for recycling. In both the garment to be recycled and the new marketable product, placket placement is irrelevant; front, back, side, across the shoulder. The same method of pattern placement for plackets is true regardless of what type of shirt, dress, pinafore, night gown, slip, coat, etc is going to be made. 4 e is a frontal view of a girls outfit that has captured embellishments while utilizing the existing placket, body, and hem of an existing shirt. The little pants are made from long shirt sleeves. The pants also utilize the body of the sleeve, cuffs, buttons. All sleeves, whether long, short or in between work in the same manner. Petitioner prefers to use a template crotch guide to place on demounted sleeves because the only thing on a sleeve that matters concerning pattern placement is to obtain the crotch length. When cutting crotch length, leave enough room to turn a casing for elastic or draw string for cincture.

FIG. 5 shows frontal views of demounted sleeves. Please refer to past submissions for exact procedure for pattern placement. In addition, there are frontal views of pants and shorts that have been produced from said demounted sleeves.

FIG. 6 shows frontal views of the effect of putting different embodiments of petitioners methods of recycling together. Said embodiments are completely interchangeable.

FIG. 7 shows frontal views of collars 7 a shows a demounted collar. 7 b shows that said collar has been demounted from its collar band 7 c. 7 d shows one should turn the demounted collar 7 b lengthwise to prepare said collar 7 a to become a little sleeve cuff After turning collar as seen in 7 d, cut collar as shown with 7 e. Attach prepared tiny shirt cuff as usual. It is important to remember that collars are generally better quality on the right side of the collar so apply the tiny collar cuff properly. The little cuffs are from a button down collar that has been demounted for the collar band.

7 f show a cutting line on a collar. 7 g shows that cutting of collar 7 f has occurred. 7 h shows that the collar tip has been demounted. The pants to the right of the instructions are made from demounted sleeves. The pants to the right of the demounted collar tip 7 h are created as follows. Place collar tips an equal distance apart on a prepared waistband with said collar tips facing inward right sides with said waistband 7 i. Turn said collar tips on said waist band outward and stitch again to secure said collar tips topstitching collar band as desired 7 j. Place buttons directly under said collar tips on said waist band. Place additional buttons equally on both sides of said tips for adjustability of garment waist band 7 k. Collar tips can be used on any embodiment created by said methods presented.

FIG. 8 shows the use of gender specific button down collar with collar band. 8 a is an exploded rear view of the hat utilizing said collar and band. 8 b is a frontal view of said hat. 8 c is a side view of the same. 8 d is an exploded rear view of the hat utilizing said collar and band of a different gender. Again, plackets and collar bands are gender specific.

FIG. 9 shows under clothing utilizing pattern placement of plackets, demounted plackets, bias from existing garments, and the use of existing hems. 9 a back view of button under clothing. 9 b frontal view of the same. 9 c a gown for dressing or a dress. 9 d side view of 9 c. 9 e is side view of 9 a. 9 f is a back view of 9 c.

FIG. 10 is a frontal view of a flow chart entitled: ‘WHOLE GARMENT PARTS AT ANY STAGE OF ASSEMBLY’. Said flow chart illustrates a brief overview of some of the possible embodiments produced with said new methods of recycling.

While the above description contains many specificities, these should not be construed as limitations on the scope of the invention, but exemplifications of the presently preferred embodiments thereof. Many other ramifications and variations are possible within the teachings of the invention. For instance, a dress shirt was used for presenting petitioners drawings. Although the use of said dress shirt is beneficial for an understanding of the petitioners invention, nearly any garment, or demounted garment part will fiction well using petitioners methods of recycling garments.

Thus, the scope of the invention should be determined by the appended claims and their legal equivalents, and not by the examples given. 

1. (canceled)
 2. A new method of converting existing or imperfect clothing into children's clothing and hats by utilizing areas of interest such as: plackets, back yokes, embellishments, collars, sleeves, seams and hems. Said method of conversion can be preformed via conventional as well as state of the art systems of cutting and sewing on existing clothing or at any appropriate stage during the apparel manufacturing process. The new method of conversion comprising: The conversion of existing plackets as found in a garment, into children's shirts, dresses, jackets, and coats; The conversion of plackets that have been severed in the previously described method via applicable forms of cutting or tearing from a garment to be reattached to the top and pants of button underclothes. The opposite sides of the severed placket are attached via sewing at the middle waistline area of the top and bottoms of the underclothes creating an underclothing set that buttons in a continuous manner around the waistline. In addition, the back of the underpants can drop down for easy use while the front of the underclothes are still buttoned together; The conversion of back yokes & embellishments by means of conventional forms of cutting and sewing resulting in the construction of children's shirts, blouses, skirts, dresses, and coats; The conversion of collars and or collar parts, via conventional forms of cutting and sewing, to become hat brims, tiny sleeve cuffs, and or waistband adjusters; The conversion of long and short sleeves via conventional forms of cutting and sewing techniques, to become pants, shorts, bloomers, diaper or panty covers, and petticoats; The use of any existing seams and hems on garments or garment sections to be converted into children's clothing, via conventional forms of cutting and sewing techniques, there by reducing and sometimes eliminating steps currently needed for the production of children's clothing; Means for the conversion of any described garment section at any phase of apparel production for use in said method of constructing children's clothing and hats; means for said method of construction to result in children's clothing and hats; Means for utilization and modification of all tools within CAD system applications including NURBS for the interaction between the design and construction elements of said new method of conducting children's clothing and hats; Means of including state-of-the-the-art techniques to simulate and animate said method as a way of streamlining the manufacturing process as described; Means to incorporate all forms of available automated apparel design, cutting and construction techniques to ease the production and manufacture of said method and; Means to incorporate all forms of available automated apparel design, cutting and construction techniques that are yet to be invented to ease the production and manufacture of said method. 